heaps Meaning, Definition & Usage

  1. noun a large number or amount
    rafts; wads; piles; lots; scads; slews; tons; gobs; scores; oodles; loads; dozens; stacks; lashings.
    • made lots of new friends
    • she amassed stacks of newspapers
  2. noun a collection of objects laid on top of each other
    agglomerate; cumulus; pile; heap; mound; cumulation.
  3. noun (often followed by `of') a large number or amount or extent
    plenty; great deal; pot; sight; flock; mint; slew; mountain; deal; wad; muckle; pile; lot; mickle; raft; quite a little; passel; hatful; mess; spate; heap; peck; stack; good deal; batch; tidy sum; mass.
    • a batch of letters
    • a deal of trouble
    • a lot of money
    • he made a mint on the stock market
    • see the rest of the winners in our huge passel of photos
    • it must have cost plenty
    • a slew of journalists
    • a wad of money
  4. noun a car that is old and unreliable
    bus; jalopy; heap.
    • the fenders had fallen off that old bus
  5. verb bestow in large quantities
    heap.
    • He heaped him with work
    • She heaped scorn upon him
  6. verb arrange in stacks
    pile; stack; heap.
    • heap firewood around the fireplace
    • stack your books up on the shelves
  7. verb fill to overflow
    heap.
    • heap the platter with potatoes
  8. adverb very much
    • thanks heaps

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